Abigail's 16th Birthday - 20 July 2008

Abigail is now 16 - It is Sunday and she is just back from work waitressing and enjoying a drink of Champagne and a slice of Birthday cake. We (Grandma and Grandad) gave her a `film' camera in readiness for her studies in September when she starts College to study photography.

16 Candles to blow out ........... go on Abigail - BLOW

ABIGAIL'S SCHOOL LEAVING PROM - 1st July 2008

Abigail has now left Stroud High School in Gloucestershire - hence the Leaving Prom. She had a wonderful time at the Ball with all her year 08 class friends. Just a few photos to capture the moment of leaving for the Ball .....

Abigail looking out towards the Garden at her friends and thinking .......

Running to the bottom of the garden for a photo session ....

Smile please ....... and ..... Cheers

and again on the terrace ...

then in the Limo - can't wait to get to the Ball

Bye bye - have fun - a once in a lifetime experience

Abigail has been accepted and will start at Cirencester Technical College where she will start in September to study Media, Psychology, English and Photography - we wish her all the luck in the world.

AN AWARD FOR ME

On Monday 4th I received my first AWARD. This Award has boosted my confidence and now I just want to sit and blog. My blog mainly consists of family affairs for our Norwegian relations who live on the beautiful island of Smola. Thank you Sigrunn.

Katherine Jenkins Open Air Concert, Tetbury

Katherine Jenkins Souvenir Programme










Lines of people waiting for the gates to open for the show area.









On Saturday 19th July we went to Westonbirt, The National Arboretum in Gloucestershire, owned by the Forestry Commission, to see Katherine Jenkins in Concert. The concert was an open air show, held in the Arboretum which houses a valuable collection of trees, some of which are now extinct. One lime tree is 2000 years old!

The Concert was a Christmas present from Heidi for Bob and me.

Heidi packed a picnic basket with yummy food and champagne, we each took a chair and off we went in my little beetle to the Arboretum. I parked my little beetle between two great Range Rovers - not many small cars there! We then had to wait in line to be let into the compound where the concert was being held.

We were forbidden to take photos when Katherine Jenkins was on but believe you me the show was fantastic. She is even better live than on CD.

The show ended with Rule Britannia - (plenty of flag waving and audience participation), Jerusalem and then finally Pomp and Circumstance No.1 also with audience participation, absolutely brilliant and then the most fantastic fireworks I have ever seen at close quarters. I could not capture the display properly, I only wish now that I had filmed it. After that we all went home rather merrily (Champas!) - a brilliant night. I was going to attach a glimpse of the firework display but can not as the pictures are mini films! (don't know how that happened - oh dear, what it is to be aged!!!)